A light snow covered roads in northern Kentucky on Jan. 7, 2011, with ice snarling rush hour traffic, including on Buttermilk Pike as seen from Anderson Road looking generally east.

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Old Man Winter is a little shifty this year, sending mixed signals to meteorologists about what the coming months will bring. Area road crews, though, say they're ready for any onslaught of snow, ice and even blizzards that may land in Northern Kentucky.

"This year's outlook is kind of tricky," said meteorologist Mike Kurz of the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio.

Though a bit of light snow is possible this morning, the latest outlook, he said, calls for equal chances of above-, below- or near-normal winter conditions. ...